Traumatic Epilepsy After Gunshot Wounds of the Head

Epilepsy after missile wounds of the head.

Two hundred and thirty-seven Nigerians with missile head injury were treated at the University College Hospital (UCH) Ibadan, between July 1964 and January 1970. Among the 165 of these patients who have been followed up for over a year, the incidence of epilepsy has been 11·4%, 18·75%, and 33·3% in a follow-up period ranging between one to two years, two to three years, and three to five years ...

Prognosis for gunshot wounds to the head.

Cerebral Embolism After Gunshot Wounds

A 22-year-old man presented with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the left neck. The rifle used was a .22 caliber filled with multiple small bird-shot pellets . Medical history was noncontributory. Physical examination showed an 8-mm diameter entrance wound in the left posterior oral cavity without active bleeding. Powder burns were present. No exit wound was identified. Except for mild left n...

Traumatic epilepsy after closed head injuries.

It has long been known that epilepsy may follow injury to the head. The relationship between the two events has been worked out in some detail for missile wounds of the head by Wagstaffe (1928), Ascroft (1941), and Russell and Whitty (1952), to mention but a few of many such studies, the opportunities for which were provided by the two world wars. The well-defined injury made study precise, and...

Traumatic epilepsy after closed head injury.

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